Synthetic Biology

NASA seems to believe that making space habitable will require more finesse than Elon Musk’s “let’s nuke Mars” plan, and has funded a couple of synbio projects which seek to provide “the means to produce

By Guest Contributor, Rene Daer The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc) was founded in 2006 to bring together researchers working in the field of synthetic biology to help establish and grow the field. The

It’s almost that time of the year again — iGEM 2015 Jamboree is coming up on September 24–28 at the Boston Hynes Convention Center! Last year, PLOS Synbio Community Editors, Aakriti and David, attended iGEM and brought

by Aditya Kunjapur When did you first hear the phrase “synthetic biology”? Was it many years ago, or did it just happen when you clicked on this blog? Synthetic biology — or SynBio — involves the engineering of biological systems

by Gaetan Burgio Deadly infectious diseases, such as those transmitted through mosquitoes, are a huge threat to the human population. The rapid pace in the development of transgenesis technologies and genome editing over the last few

by David Shifrin Science hit an inflection point somewhere in the past 10–15 years. We reached a point where all (or at many) of the pieces that go into discovery — these include hard technologies like computing power,

by Ron Shigeta The world demand for protein is growing fantastically even as inventory is running low. The solution is a new green revolution to bring nitrogen into food faster to avoid catastrophic famine. A

The following post was contributed by Ron Shigeta and the team over at IndieBio, an exciting incubator/accelerator with locations in Cork, Ireland and San Francisco, CA. We love what they are doing to promote synthetic

by Aakriti Jain PLOS Synbio is excited to join forces with Synberc, along with iGEM, AAAS,Synbiobeta, EUSynbioS, and The Tech Museum of Innovation to launch the#MeetSynbio Campaign. The motivation behind the campaign is to